Coffee-pot



(No Model.)

W. H. WRIGLEY.

COFFEE PDT.

No. 476,718. Patented June 7, 1892.

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IVILLIAM H. \VRIGLEY, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

COFFEE-POT;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 476,718, dated June 7,1892.

Application filed October 10, 1891, Serial No. 408,371. (No model.)

To a whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ILLIAM II. WRIGLEY, residing at New Orleans, in theparish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Coffee-Pots, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention is an improved drip-coffee pot; and it consists in certainfeatures of construction and novel combinations of parts, as will behereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of thecoffee-pot. Fig. 2 is a detail View of the coffee-holder; Fig. 3, adetail view of the hot-water holder; and Fig. l is a view showing thehot-water holder arranged to serve as a top for the coffee-pot, thecoffee-holder being omitted.

The coffee-pot A may have a handle B and spout O, as usual, and has itstop D provided with the opening (Z, which is of considerably lessdiameter than the body of the pot, so that the coffee-holder fitted inthe said opening will not fill the pot, but will leave ample room forthe dripped coffee.

The coffee-holder E is in the nature of a cup or cylinder fitted to theopening (I and provided with a bottome, the said bottom and thelowerportions c of the sides of the holder being perforated by fineholes, the upper portion 6 of the sides being imperforate, as shown. Ashort distance from its top the holder E has an outwardly projectedannular flange F, which rests upon the top D, as shown in Fig. 1, andthe part f of the holder projected above said flange F forms anipple-like part to receive the depending ring-like portion 9 of thecover G for the coffee-holder. This ring-like portion 9 is adapted tofit down over the part f when the coffee-holder is in place, and whensuch coffee-holder is removed and the coffee is to be served the cover Gand parts connected therewith may be withdrawn from the coffee-holderandset to serve as a cover for the coffee-pot, the ring g fitting downin the opening (I, as shown in Fig. 3. This cover G is a part of thehot-water holder, which includes a small perforated cylinder II,depending centrally from the cover G and having a pointed lower end It,so that it may easily be inserted down in the ground coffee in thecoffee-holder. The tube II is made sufficiently long to nearly reach thebottom of the coifeeholder when inserted therein, as shown in Fig. 1. Tofacilitate the filling of perforated tube H, it is provided above thecover G with a funnel-like top I, and the hot-water holder has a coverJ, formed with a tubej to fit in the top of the tube II and a plate ordisk J to fit the funnel I.

The operation is simple. The coffee-holder is placed in the pot, thecoffee placed therein, the hot-water holder inserted, and hot waterpoured therein and permitted to drip through the coffee. After thecoffee has dripped if further dripping is not needed at the table thecoffeeholder may be removed and the cover G be placed on the pot, asshown in Fi 3.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- The improvedcolfee-pot, substantially as described, consisting of the pot proper,the coffee-holder fitted therein and having its upper portion withinsaid pot imperforate and its sides near its lower end perforated, asdescribed, the hot-water holder fitted in said coffee-holder and havingits sides perforated at points opposite both the imperforate and theperforated portions of the coffee-holder, said hot-water holder beingprovided at its upper end with a cover G to close the top of thecoffee-holder, and a cover for the hot-water holder, all substantiallyas and for the purposes set forth.

IVILLIAM II. WRIGLEY.

Witnesses:

WALTER B. PARKER, EDWIN T. DoWTY.

